Reframing Social Tectonics with the Sociology of Everyday Life: Insights from the Public Spaces of a Mixed Housing Neighbourhood

Q2 Social Sciences

Critical Housing Analysis Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.13060/23362839.2023.10.2.557

Timothy Wykes

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Abstract

Social mix policies aim to integrate residents living in diverse forms of housing. While numerous studies have showcased the limitations of social mix in achieving this objective, explanations for this tendency remain incomplete. Accordingly, this qualitative case study adopts insights from the sociology of everyday life and interaction ritual theory to elaborate on academic understandings of (non)-interaction between disparate groups in mixed housing communities. It draws primarily from observational fieldwork and semi-structured interview data gathered in the public spaces of a transitioning mid-sized city in Ontario, Canada. The findings report how everyday encounters among and between the urban poor and wealthier residents (re)produce patterns of group solidarity and conflict. The continued application of micro-sociological perspectives to housing mix research can chronicle and perhaps mend the gaps between government housing policy objectives and the experiences of residents living within relevant legislative jurisdictions.

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用日常生活社会学重塑社会结构：从混合住宅区的公共空间获得的启示

社会混合政策旨在整合居住在不同形式住房中的居民。虽然许多研究表明社会混合在实现这一目标方面存在局限性，但对这一趋势的解释仍然不完整。因此，本定性案例研究采用日常生活社会学和互动仪式理论的见解，阐述了对混合住房社区中不同群体之间(非)互动的学术理解。它主要来自观察田野调查和半结构化访谈数据，这些数据收集于加拿大安大略省一个转型中型城市的公共空间。调查结果报告了城市穷人和富裕居民之间的日常接触如何(重新)产生群体团结和冲突的模式。继续将微观社会学观点应用于住房组合研究，可以记录并可能弥补政府住房政策目标与居住在有关立法管辖范围内的居民的经验之间的差距。

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Critical Housing Analysis Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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期刊介绍： Critical Housing Analysis is a peer-reviewed academic journal focusing on critical and innovative housing research. The journal was launched in January 2014 and publishes two online issues annually. Critical Housing Analysis is published by the Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Critical Housing Analysis aims to provide on-line discussion space for researchers who come up with innovative, critical and challenging ideas and approaches in housing-related research. The unique function of this journal is to facilitate rapid feedback on critical and innovative ideas and methods developed by housing researchers around the world. We are especially keen to publish papers that provide: 1.Innovations in methods, theories and practices used in housing-related research. We especially welcome papers applying original research strategies (such as, mixed and interdisciplinary methods) and international comparisons with a strong sense for contextual and institutional differences. Papers should provide new and fresh research perspectives allowing a deeper understanding of housing markets, policies and systems. Innovations need to be justified but they could be “work in progress”, i.e. their findings may not yet have been fully verified. 2.Critiques of assumptions, methods and theories used in housing-related research. Such critical evaluations must be well-founded (empirically or by consistently logical argument) and convincing. However, there is no particular need to provide a solution to the problems that have been identified. 3.Critiques of applied housing practices and policies in particular cultural and institutional contexts, especially for those countries that are less represented in mainstream housing policy discourse. The critical assessment of policies must be analytical, should propose new perspectives and lead to wider policy implications.